photos: © Marcus J Leith . + Raven Row
The installation in gallery 1 appears like a display in a geographical society, recounting the uncertain outcome of a mountaineering expedition. The central gallery has become a landscape of smashed glass, as if returning urban forms of makeshift security and luxury wellness to nature. The origins of the sculptural work in the far gallery lie in Aranberri’s construction twenty years ago of a cave wall and habitat for bats, while the role of the artist in the unpicking of histories is suggested in the stripped-back statues on the first floor. Throughout, Aranberri uses uncaptioned photographs and drawings, as well as steel sections, selected or made for this exhibition as commentaries and footnotes on its itinerary.
Raven Row
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